4/15/2005 03:47:00 PM by Rob

Best time ever at a Cub game

Chicago Cubs 5, New York Mets 4

DayGame Played on Saturday, September 15, 1984 (D) at Wrigley Field

NY N 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 - 4 6 0
CHI N 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 x - 5 6 0

BATTING
New York Mets AB R H RBI BB K PO A
Backman 2b 4 1 1 1 0 0 2 5
Wilson cf 3 0 1 2 1 0 1 0
Hernandez 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 10 1
Strawberry rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
Foster lf 4 0 0 0 0 2 1 0
Brooks ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 3 3
Knight 3b 4 1 3 0 0 0 0 1
Chapman pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fitzgerald c 4 1 1 0 0 0 5 0
Fernandez p 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Gardner p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Heep ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Schiraldi p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hodges ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Oquendo pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Orosco p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 6 4 2 5 24 12

FIELDING -
DP: 3.
BATTING -
2B: Fitzgerald (14,off Sanderson); Backman (19,off Smith).
BASERUNNING -
SB: Wilson (44,2nd base off Sanderson/Davis).

Chicago Cubs AB R H RBI BB K PO A
Dernier cf 3 1 2 1 1 0 1 0
Sandberg 2b 3 1 0 0 1 1 0 10
Matthews lf 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
Cotto lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Moreland rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Cey 3b 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 1
Davis c 3 0 0 0 1 1 5 0
Durham 1b 3 0 1 0 0 0 15 1
Bowa ss 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 1
Sanderson p 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 1
Smith p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals 26 5 6 4 6 5 27 15

BATTING -
2B: Cey (24,off Fernandez); Dernier (24,off Fernandez).
SH: Sanderson (3,off Fernandez).
IBB: Davis (14,by Fernandez).

BASERUNNING -
SB: Dernier (43,2nd base off Fernandez/Fitzgerald).

PITCHING
New York Mets IP H HR R ER BB K
Fernandez L(4-6) 3.2 3 0 5 5 5 4
Gardner 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Schiraldi 3 2 0 0 0 1 0
Orosco 1 1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals 8 6 0 5 5 6 5

Chicago Cubs IP H HR R ER BB K
Sanderson W(8-4) 7.1 3 0 3 3 2 3
Smith SV(32) 1.2 3 0 1 1 0 2
Totals 9.0 6 0 4 4 2 5

WP: Fernandez (1), Smith (5).
IBB: Fernandez (3,Davis).
Time of Game: 2:52 Attendance: 38653

Now, I was at the Sandberg game, too. That kind of hit all at once like a sledgehammer, I was beyond speech that day. On Sept 15, this was the Cubs' 90th win of the year, and from the moment we reported outside the bleachers at 9:30AM, until they dragged me out of the last bar, it was an all-out laughing screaming drunken party. We anticipated, and it did not disappoint.

Darryl the Straw seriously contemplated climbing the ivy so he could wrap his hands around my throat. "Hey Darryl, why dontcha come up here and piss us off some moooore?"

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